USE CASE:
Telling whether a company builds software in house
Everything below is about telling whether a company builds software in house, and about which engineering depth method holds up on a list rather than one record. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for this kind of work, and GitHub Organization Signal Scanner is the one aimed at engineering depth.
What is actually going wrong
There is a real difference between a company that buys all its technology and one that employs engineers who ship. It changes who you talk to, what objection you get, and whether your product is a purchase or a build decision. Nothing in standard firmographics captures it, because industry codes describe what a company sells rather than how it works.
Traditional Search Tools
- Their job board. Open engineering roles are the strongest available proxy and the listings are public. It tells you they are hiring engineers, not what those engineers do.
- BuiltWith or Wappalyzer. Shows what the website runs on, which is adjacent and not the same. A custom stack hints at engineering, and plenty of engineering teams ship on off the shelf tooling.
- Look for the public code. Search the company name on GitHub, check for a developer subdomain, read the engineering blog. Three minutes and the answer is usually obvious.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- GitHub Organization Signal Scanner3 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.